TV Licensing

flyer

Can anyone explain how TV Licensing have established I'm watching iplayer?

oldernonethewiser

Have they? Or is it just a fishing exercise by TVL?

Possibly by tracking your IP adress

MikeJXE

It's possible, plus to watch anything on the BBC website you need to sign in and that a clue in itself 

400ixl

Are you are logged into it with an email and when you first signed up you gave a postcode which was then associated with that email address.

flyer

oldernonethewiser said:

Have they? Or is it just a fishing exercise by TVL?

Possibly by tracking your IP adress

My wife and I don't watch TV but I had an email a few days ago saying they noticed we'd been watching iplayer. our daughter stayed with us for a few days recently and she's told us she watched it! Where do we stand?

elsien

Does she not have her own licence somewhere else?

fatbelly

Ignore emails

Probably spam

If it's important they'll write. 

Mutton_Geoff

flyer said:

oldernonethewiser said:

Have they? Or is it just a fishing exercise by TVL?

Possibly by tracking your IP adress

My wife and I don't watch TV but I had an email a few days ago saying they noticed we'd been watching iplayer. our daughter stayed with us for a few days recently and she's told us she watched it! Where do we stand?

This is a phishing scam email. Capita do not send emails. Just delete it.

cerebus

It's a scam , do not reply to the email and delete and block it

It's just a coindence is all

km1500

if you have in the past had a TV license and given them your email address fred@gmail.com and then subsequently say you no longer need a license and then you subsequently sign in to iPlayer using fred@gmail.com they will 'know'.

PixelPound

if you don't watch TV, then I assume you are not logged in to iplayer on any device. So your daughter will have logged in with her details. So they wouldn't have your email address.

Just think, how would they have or get your email address.
If you'd registered for iplayer and were logged into it on the device, then it would be in their logs, but otherwise no.
From your IP? No, for this they would have to ask your ISP for your details and this requires a court order, even then they'd probably get your address not just email. If they were doing this, there'd be stories everywhere as cost wise they'd do it in bulk and have to show they suspect you doing it illegally.

So as has been said, it's just a coincidence and it's spam.